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Dr. Mary Law
Co-Founder / Emeritus

Biography
Dr. Mary Law is Co-Founder of CanChild and Professor Emeritus in the School of Rehabilitation Science. She is an occupational therapist with graduate training in health research methods and health and social planning. Her research in CanChild studies the factors in communities that help or hinder children with disabilities to participate in daily activities. She is also involved in research to evaluate the effectiveness of rehabilitation services for young children with disabilities. Mary works together with families in doing research to ensure that knowledge is used to support their children's participation.
Area of Focus
Development, validation, and transfer into practice of outcome measures, evaluation of family-centred interventions for children with disabilities